Date: 2008-11-30 16:50:00 Created: 2008-11-30 11:04:29
It's strange and unusual, but I think I've actually had a good weekend and got enough things done to be allround happy about it. Yesterday I ran, took a long walk on town, finished a long-dragging book and found time for two movies, one of which was the excellent The man from earth. Wholeheartedly recommended if you can stand a movie which is all good dialogue, and a reason to learn to stand that if you don't.
Today I slept late but not too late, got up and did a bit of Sproutcore coding/reading/exploration. It went well, and it's exactly the (okay, okay, yet another) kind of thing I would like to do more often; just sit down and play around with things, get some small stuff going and see what it feels like. Exploratory coding, or something like that.
Really, what I want to do more often can be neatly summed up like this: creative things. Create stuff. Be it code or images or text (or something completely different). Create stuff, and preferably finish what I start in one form or the other. (But then, starting and throwing away or restarting or getting a different idea isn't so bad either.) Not so difficult, really.
Then, somewhere around noon, I headed down to the basement to fetch my Christmas decorations (lights mostly, as you will see below). Having found what I came for I suddenly found myself going through and sorting all the other stuff down there. It was as unexpected as it was good, and I emerged from the underground an hour or two later with Christmas decorations, perfectly good computer speakers, some books and a load of game boxes. No point in keeping those things down there when I have space and/or use for them up here.
Then I went around, put up all the electric chandeliers and filled up my shelves a bit more.
(I will leave the question of how many electric chandeliers one man can decently have unaddressed.)
It turns out that when you haven't had garlic in a while it isn't too difficult to get what you percieve to be a high dose. Surprise.
Now I'm going to settle down for a while with hot cocoa (on proper cream and with honey, yum!) and another good film or two. Oh, and gingerbread.
Be good, but not too good.